Preface ; 1. Green Polymer Chemistry: Biocatalysis and Biomaterials ; H. N. Cheng and Richard A. Gross ; Novel Biobased Materials ; 2. Solid or Swollen Polymer-Protein Hybrid Materials ; Kasper Renggli and Nico Bruns ; 3. Biofabrication Based on the Enzyme-Catalyzed Coupling and Crosslinking of Pre-Formed Biopolymers ; Yi Liu, Xiaohua Yang, Xiao-Wen Shi, William E. Bentley, and Gregory F. Payne ; 4. Development of Novel Soy Protein-Based Polymer Blends ; Jinwen Zhang and Feng Chen ; 5. Thermodynamic and Microscopy Studies of Urea-Soy Protein Composites ; K. Venkateshan and X. S. Sun ; 6. Extraction and Characterization of Sugar Beet Polysaccharides ; Marshall L. Fishman, Peter H. Cooke, and Arland T. Hotchkiss Jr. ; 7. Novel Biobased Plastics, Rubbers, Composites, Coatings and Adhesives from Agricultural Oils and By-Products ; Yongshang Lu and Richard C. Larock ; 8. Enzyme-Nanotube-Based Composites Used for Chemical and Biological Decontamination ; Cerasela Zoica Dinu, Indrakant V. Borkar, Shyam Sundhar Bale, Guangyu Zhu, Karl Sanford, Gregg Whited, Ravi S. Kane, and Jonathan S. Dordick ; New or Improved Biocatalysts ; 9. Hemin-Binding Aptamers and Aptazymes ; Mingzhe Liu, Hiroshi Abe, and Yoshihiro Ito ; 10. Synthesis of Covalently Linked Enzyme Dimers ; Sanne Schoffelen, Loes Schobers, Hanka Venselaar, Gert Vriend, and Jan C. M. van Hest ; 11. Biotransformations Using Cutinase ; Peter James Baker and Jin Kim Montclare ; Syntheses of Polyesters and Polycarbonates ; 12. Biosynthesis of Polyhydroxyalkanoates from 4-Ketovaleric Acid in Bacterial Cells ; Jian Yu ; 13. Synthesis of Functional Polycarbonates from Renewable Resources ; Kirpal S. Bisht and Talal F. Al-Azemi ; 14. Polymers from Biocatalysis: Materials with a Broad Spectrum of Physical Properties ; Mariastella Scandola, Maria Letizia Focarete, and Richard A. Gross ; 15. Lipase-Catalyzed Copolymerization of ?-Pentadecalactone (PDL) and Alkyl Glycolate: Synthesis of Poly(PDL-co-GA) ; Zhaozhong Jiang and Jie Liu ; 16. Chemo-Enzymatic Syntheses of Polyester-Urethanes ; Karla A. Barrera-Rivera, Angel Marcos-Fernandez, and Antonio Martinez-Richa ; 17. Enzymatic Synthesis and Properties of Novel Biobased Elastomers Consisting of 12-Hydroxystearate, Itaconate and Butane-1,4-diol ; Mayumi Yasuda, Hiroki Ebata, and Shuichi Matsumura ; Syntheses of Polyamides and Polypeptides ; 18. Synthesis of Poly(aminoamides) via Enzymatic Means ; H. N. Cheng and Qu-Ming Gu ; 19. Mechanistic Insight in the Enzymatic Ring-Opening Polymerization of ?-Propiolactam ; Leendert W. Schwab, Iris Baum, Gregor Fels, and Katja Loos ; Syntheses and Modifications of Polysaccharides ; 20. Production of Natural Polysaccharides and Their Analogues via Biopathway Engineering ; Lei Li, Wen Yi, Wenlan Chen, Robert Woodward, Xianwei Liu, and Peng George Wang ; 21. Glycosaminoglycan Synthases: Catalysts for Customizing Sugar Polymer Size and Chemistry ; Paul L. DeAngelis ; 22. Development and Applications of a Novel, First-in-Class Hyaluronic Acid from Bacillus ; Khadija Schwach-Abdellaoui, Birgit Lundskov Fuhlendorff, Fanny Longin, and Jens Lichtenberg ; Biocatalytic Redox Polymerizations ; 23. Enzymatic Synthesis of Electrically Conducting Polymers ; Ryan Bouldin, Akshay Kokil, Sethumadhavan Ravichandran, Subhalakshmi Nagarajan, Jayant Kumar, Lynne A. Samuelson, Ferdinando F. Bruno, and Ramaswamy Nagarajan ; 24. Sustained Development in Baeyer-Villiger Biooxidation Technology ; Peter C. K. Lau, Hannes Leisch, Brahm J. Yachnin, I. Ahmad Mirza, Albert M. Berghuis, Hiroaki Iwaki, and Yoshie Hasegawa ; Enzymatic Hydrolyses and Degradations ; 25. Embedding Enzymes To Control Biomaterial Lifetime ; Manoj Ganesh and Richard Gross ; 26. Surprisingly Rapid Enzymatic Hydrolysis of Poly(ethylene terephthalate) ; Asa M. Ronkvist, Wenchun Xie, Wenhua Lu, and Richard A. Gross ; 27. Polylactic Acid (PLA)-Degrading Microorganisms and PLA Depolymerases ; Fusako Kawai ; Grafting and Functionalization Reactions ; 28. Green Polymer Chemistry: Enzymatic Functionalization of Liquid Polymers in Bulk ; Judit E. Puskas and Mustafa Y. Sen ; 29. Bio-Based and Biodegradable Aliphatic Polyesters Modified by a Continuous Alcoholysis Reaction ; James H. Wang and Aimin He ; 30. Synthesis of Grafted Polylactic Acid and Polyhydroxyalkanoate by a Green Reactive Extrusion Process ; James H. Wang and David M. Schertz ; Epilogue ; Indexes ; Author Index ; Subject Index
